Derek27 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:52 pm
dragontrades wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:11 pm
BF are giving out £15 Sportbook bonus for your forgiveness
I hope you didn't get too badly stung by the outage - still no sign of an explanation from Betfair.
By the way, I have noticed outages only seem to occur in the afternoon UK time. Never had a problem trading in the US or Australia.
I thought the same thing. Unless it's BF being absolute incompetent regarding their IT, which I, all things considered, find unlikely, then if free range of speculation is given a whirl then something like a DDoS attack would be my best, rather uneducated, guess. I gather from your previous comments that you only trade horses, and those races will be long gone by the time they're back up. But in the football, there will be a vast sum of money in the market, when they go down. They - obviously - clear unmatched from matches that have gone in-play in the meantime, but those still to start will have a lot of money waiting, that will not be cancelled. And those markets typically fill up with liquidity in the afternoon.
The efficient prices can have moved quite a bit in the meantime, and those to move first once the markets reopen can make a tidy sum.
Pure speculation, I'll say again, just to be clear.
